In Retrospect

Take a minute to reflect
Look at your life in retrospect
Recall a scent, recall a glance
Save a moment, save a chance
Life is lonely, no one can tell
Tears of sorrow, you hide them well
Think of the time when we had met
You thought pain was all you’ll get
Real love maybe, we never knew,
Just think of me, I’ll think of you

picture by suntoksabwan

Ode to My Ear

Such a miracle it is
To be able to hear
Audio images, melodies
Conducted by my ear

What control it has on me
Heart, body and all
Drowsiness, tenderness
All from something so small

I have sabotaged it
Now it retaliates
Scornful, torturing
My actions, it dictates

Can’t touch it, don’t try
Mobile renders useless
I twist, I turn
Destined to be sleepless

It has a heartbeat
I know it loves me
But can it stop
As its love just hurts me

It’s red, hot, and unbearable
Swollen, like a balloon
I wish, I yearn
For it to get well soon

picture by At~A~Glance

This poem was written only because i'm sick and tired of my ear. I had my left ear pierced twice and the 'higher' piercing is now infected so it hurts like hell! Doc says it will get better within a few -hopefully short!- days :)

No One Better

You proved me wrong with your charm
Your delicate infatuation with the real me
Your determination to protect me from all harm
Your patient pain you never let me see

You made me realise I was foolish
To not believe the saying
That in the sea, are many fish
And all my fingers are not the same

Nights and nights, I awaken upset
For what my heart clings on and weeps
The days and love I wasted, I regret
But with you my heart serenely sleeps

If you were my first encounter
You would have set the bar too high
Forced the poor attempters to suffer
Struggling to reach it, try after try

Except in this unfair life, only now you came along
Too late to live the fair life we both would prefer
But you came in time and you’ve proven me wrong
To think that there would be no one better

Picture by teal_talia

Totally hilarious!!! - comparison of the sexes

I saw this aaaages ago but i have to post it here to share it with people who haven't seen it because it is absolutely hilarious!

http://www.bozzetto.com/flash/fem_male.htm

Enjoy the flash!

I'd say 90% of it is totally true! what do you think?!

A Frozen Rose

My heart is a frozen rose
A petal breaks
The hidden now shows
Vulnerability overly exposed

Maybe it could have been spared
Is it too late?
Could it have been repaired?
What good is hoping, if no one cared?

Deep red, though lacking affection
No light, but still growing
Every time in a different direction
Pitiful, leaves bud with rejection

Protecting it from pain
Armed with thorns
You’re pricked with disdain
Becoming yet another blood stain

To what the wind brings when it blows
Its aura stays numb
To what life retains - to whatever it throws
My heart stays a frozen rose

Photo by coldnomore

Followed

I feel followed

<whispered: No, I won't look back>...I feel stalked

I wonder if I'm right

Will I be the prey tonight?

Is there someone walking behind me?

Creeping so softly, <whispered: Don't look back>...so I can't see

My palms clenched and my heart trembles

My eyes are glossy, fearing what this resembles

A scary movie, a victim's autobiography

I get home, my fingers fumble for the key

I say to myself: <whispered: 30 seconds could give it a chance>

I have 30 seconds that can make a difference

Get in the door, lock it, <whispered: one lock...two...three> they click

Close the curtain, put the lights on, that'll do the trick

The doorbell rings, I reach for my bat

Ready for action, ready for combat

I open the door just enough to see who

It slams open with a big "BOO"

From a friend that nearly gave me a heart attack

And in reply she says smirkily "There...now, I got you back"

Photo by pmarella

Lady In Process

I may sip my tea
Have my nails French-manicured
Shaped in a perfect ‘C’
But there is a little child hiding
Beneath the Lady I must be
I am a young spirit that never will change
I will not allow this society to mould me
To become one of them
To become an emotionless proper Lady
A lady never speaks of her misfortunes
She forces herself to cry at funerals (how silly!)
Juggles weddings and engagements to see & ofcourse, be seen
As a lady who fulfils what she calls her ‘societal duty’
I will revolt against this doctrine
I will not become a puppet to any society
I’m on a mission to be myself
So come on! Be a rebel, come join me
Steer away from it if its not what you’re meant to be
And to the women who disapprove say just one thing:
“Don’t think of me less
If I don’t pass your tests
I really do try my very best
But with a free spirit
I am unlike the rest
(And this I confess…)
I am and always will be
A lady in process

picture by mbrinamen

Dear Life,

Dear Life,

Thank you for providing me with this job
Yet, may I also ask for motivation?
Thank you for the family I have
Yet, may I also ask for some patience?
Thank you for nature’s beauty
Yet, may I ask for more time to enjoy it?
Thank you for all the love you allowed me to give
Yet, may I ask you for my heart’s protection?
Thank you for the strength you gave me when I was weak
Yet, may I also ask you for more in my remaining days?
Thank you for the self confidence you built in me
Yet, may I also ask you to complete me with modesty?
Thank you for the smile I have to share with people
Other than the pleasure it brings them, I ask of you nothing more.

Love,

One who is but a fraction of life.